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• More heavy snow for Wales, Midlands, and North West
• Heathrow to operate two-thirds of flights
• Eurostar operating a "near to normal" service
9.26am: The queues aren't nearly as long today, but Eurostar continues to get in the neck from its passengers on Twitter.
Here's a sample from this morning:
Rebeccanestor: Queue at St Pancras this morning wholly within the station but still v long #eurostar #snow
stefangates: Finally on the Eurostar but loads of empty seats despite queues outside st pancras going round the block. Rubbish organisation.
jackiechamberx: @eurostar U not telling truth. Why queues if only ticketed travel? U abusing trust of yr customers? Ur only way to sort mess is to lie 2 us?
stevewilsonap: Queue inside has fallen apart and it's free for all with everyone clamoring to get through. How they will sort this out is anyone's guess.
9.02am: Heathrow has published a lists of 882 flights that are due to depart today. This represents about 70% of what was scheduled, a spokesman said.
The departure board for the next hour or so is still showing a lot of cancelled flights, according to Flightstats.
8.08am: This should be the day that queues of stranded passengers are cleared and normal transport services are resumed.
But more heavy snow is falling across northern Wales, the Midlands and the North West, as shown on the UK snow Twitter map.
Eurostar insists that queues are moving well, and that passengers with tickets only need to turn up an hour before they are due to depart. This is a big improvement on yesterday when the queue was well over half a mile long and the wait was five hours.
BAA is also sounding more confident about clearing the backlog at Heathrow. It is preparing to operate more than two-thirds of flights today.
But BAA faces fresh embarrassment today. The Telegraph reveals that its chief executive Colin Matthews was paid £1m this year - "twice as much as the company spent preparing for the prospect of bad weather this winter".
There are more problems on the rail network today.
• Trains are running again on the East Coast mainline after a suspension yesterday between Kings' Cross and Peterborough. But there is a reduced service, and several trains have been cancelled on the route.
• A broken-down train is causing delays between London and Northampton and Rugby while a number of services in Wales and Scotland have had be axed.
• There are also delays and cancellations on services run by the Northern Rail company, while First Great Western and First Capital Connect are operating amended timetables.
• National Express East Anglia is running a reduced service on several lines in East Anglia.
• West Coast main line operator Virgin Trains is operating a reduced service on its London to Birmingham and Manchester routes.
• In London, the Docklands Light Railway is suspended between Canning Town and Beckton due to power supply problems.
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